Javascript Engineer

We’re looking for engineers and developers that enjoy having a huge impact at early stage startups and want to be part of a founding team

About Koan:

• We’re a small venture backed team based out of Portland and Palo Alto building tools that help managers and teams work better together. As an analogy: sales people have Salesforce, engineers have JIRA and Github… Koan aims to be the same for managers. 
• We believe there’s a better way for teams and companies to set and manage goals and we’re building the next category in Enterprise Software.

What you’ll be doing:

• Joining the founding technical team, improving and maintaining the product
• Building our web SPA in ES6, React and Redux
• Working with the founding team in Portland

You’ll have:

• Production React experience or be motivated to learn quickly
• A deep understanding of Javascript ES6
• An understanding of CSS/HTML5, associated frameworks and best practices
• Formal education in Computer Science (CS) or a long history of shipping software and solving hard CS problems.
• Shipped software to users in the past 12 months; worked in a team shipping production software to SaaS markets
• A great Github account, or other evidence of impact on team projects. Probably a few cool side projects

We like:

• Continuous deployment
• Enjoy a challenge and being proud of our work
• Building great data-driven UX experiences
• Caring about customers
• Making things work, then making them work better
• Having a slight disregard for technical elegance
• Documenting and fixing technical debt
• Testing and writing code that can be depended on
• Having fun while building a great company

Why Koan:

• Generous stock grant
• Competitive salary
• Great health insurance & 401k
• A company with a silicon valley mindset mixed with Portland ethos
• Be part of the journey to build something great with a team that cares about both results and company culture 

We're currently looking for Portland based employees or individuals ready to relocate to Portland at this time